Bench

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Bench or The Bench can refer to:

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Seat

• Bench (furniture), a piece of furniture, which mostly offers several persons seating

In clothing

• Bench. (clothing) (British), a British clothing brand
• Bench/ (clothing), a clothing brand established in the Philippines in 1987

In law and politics

• Bench (metonymy), certain people in a given (e.g. professional) context, associated with a particular seating, especially in politics and law
• Bench (law), the location where a judge sits while in court, often a raised desk in a courtroom; also refers to the judiciary as a whole (to differentiate from the bar (law) - the lawyers or barristers); and may also mean a group of judges hearing a case and judging on a case

In sports

• The "bench" refers to the players on the roster that do not start regularly or are not currently playing in any given game ("on the bench")
  • In soccer, the technical area contains the dugout (or "bench")
• Bench (weight training), a piece of weight training equipment, often very similar to the above "wide backless chair"
• Bench press, an open-chained form of free-weightlifting equipment
• The Bench (University of California), the student rooting section for the University of California men's basketball team

In the arts

• The Bench (film), a short film from The Northern Film School in the United Kingdom
• The Bench (Hogarth), a 1758 oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist William Hogarth

People

• Bench (woreda), a people in Ethiopia
• Jo Bench, an English death metal bass player
• Johnny Bench, a former Major League Baseball player for the Cincinnati Reds from 1967 to 1983

Elsewhere

• In Judaism, benching or bentsching
  • Most commonly refers to the recitation of Birkat Hamazon, the Jewish grace after meals
  • Licht bentsh, the lighting of Shabbat candles'
  • The term "bentsching" refers to the recitation of several other blessings
• Bench language (Bench-non), a Northern Omotic language spoken in Kaffa (southeastern Ethiopia)
• Workbench, a place of work consisting of a table and perhaps places to keep an arrangement of tools and materials
• Bench scale, the small scale in contrast to commercial scale
• For rivers, also known as a Terrace In surveying and civil engineering, a landform consisting of a long strip of land at constant height in an otherwise sloped area. It is typically caused by successive depositions and erosions by a river in a floodplain. It may also be part of an artificial earthwork (c.f. benchmark, q.v. berm)

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